Cruit Lower

239 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cruit Lower, from 6 m² to 168,077 m² (16.81 ha, 41.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 36 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Cruit Lower in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 27 Jul 2026N/a

  (1) REFURBISHMENT AND RETHATCHING OF THE THATCHED COTTAGE, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY KITCHEN, DINING AND LIVING AREA AND LIGHTWEIGHT LINK BUILDING TO THE THATCHED COTTAGE, (3) REFURBISHMENT OF A VACANT 2-STOREY DWELLING-HOUSE, (4) DEMOLITION AND RECONSTRUCTION OF THE LONG COTTAGE, AND PROVIDING A BUILT LINK BETWEEN IT AND THE DWELLING-HOUSE, (5) REFURBISHMENT OF THE GRANARY STORE BUILDING, (6) REFURBISHMENT OF THE BEACH STORE BUILDING, (7) REPLACEMENT AND RELOCATION OF THE EXISTING EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND (8) ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661397

• 17 Oct 2025Conditional

  REPLACEMENT OF EXISTING DECKING AREA WITH POD LIKE STRUCTURE FOR PRIVATE USE ASSOCIATED WITH EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2550143

• 13 Oct 2025Conditional

  INSTALLATION OF AN ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS STRUCTURE COMPRISING OF A 6-METRE-HIGH TIMBER POLE SUPPORTING 1 NO. RADIO-LINK DISH, TOGETHER WITH SINGLE BAY CABINET, FIBRE CHAMBER, FOUNDATION, CONCRETE PLINTH AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT WORKS. THE DEVELOPMENT IS REQUIRED TO CARRY THE BROADBAND DATA FROM THE NEW HIGH SPEED FIBRE BROADBAND NETWORK ON THE ISLAND TO THE MAINLAND BY RADIO LINK, TO CONNECT TO THE NBI NATIONAL FIBRE NETWORK, AS PART OF THE GOVERNMENT’S NATIONAL BROADBAND PLAN TO PROVIDE HIGH SPEED BROADBAND TO ALL PARTS OF THE COUNTRY THAT ARE NOT AVAILABLE COMMERCIALLY, INCLUDING THE ISLANDS, AT THE SAME DATA SPEED

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561785

• 4 Jul 2025Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING PORCH, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF GROUND FLOOR REAR INFILL EXTENSION, (3) INSTALLATION OF NEW ROOF INCLUDING REMOVAL OF EXISTING DORMER WINDOW, (4) CREATION OF A COVERED EXTERNAL SEATING AND BBQ AREA, (5) INTERNAL ALTERATIONS AND RECONFIGURATION, (6) INSTALLATION OF NEW ALUMINIUM WINDOWS AND DOORS, (7) INSTALLATION OF NEW GLAZED GUARDING TO TERRACE, (8) RE-RENDERING AND RE-PAINTING AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561144

• 6 May 2025Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH ATTACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND (2) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT WITH INTERMITTENT MONO-GRADE TERTIARY SAND FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560708

• 15 Oct 2024Conditional

  (1) DWELLING HOUSE AND SUN ROOM AS CONSTRUCTED WHICH WAS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PLANNING PERMISSION UNDER PLANNING REF. NOS. 99/522 AND 04/3076 RESPECTIVELY AND (2) DOMESTIC GARAGE AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO BOTH THE EXISTING FRONT AND REAR ELEVATIONS OF THE DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461624

• 29 Apr 2024Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE WESTERN SIDE GABLE OF EXISTING DWELLING, (2) INSTALLATION OF 2 NO. GABLE WINDOWS TO THE ATTIC STORAGE SPACE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460595

• 31 May 2023Conditional

  (1) ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING DWELLING FACADE TO INCLUDE RECONFIGURATION OF WINDOW OPES AND THE ADDITION OF STONE CLADDING, (2) ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE, THE WORKS CONSIST OF THE ADDITION OF A DORMER WINDOW EXTENSION AND THE CONVERSION OF THE ATTIC SPACE FOR USE AS A GYM. ALTERATIONS TO THE FACADE TO INCLUDE PROPOSED STONE CLADDING AND NEW WINDOW OPES AND (3) DEMOLTION OF AN EXISTING SHED AND THE REPLACEMENT WITH A PROPOSED GARDEN ROOM STRUCTURE AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350771

• 29 Dec 2022Conditional

  ENLARGEMENT OF 1 NO. WINDOW OPENING ON THE WEST ELEVATION WITH PROPOSED FRAME TO MATCH THAT OF THE EXISTING FRAMES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2252101

• 29 Mar 2022Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING HOUSE (2) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING INCLUDING THE DECOMMISSIONING OF THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK, INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250536

• 4 May 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150815

• 21 Dec 2020Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING HOUSE AND ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING AND INCLUDES THE DECOMMISSIONING OF THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK, INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2052001

• 8 Dec 2020Conditional

  (1) ERECTION OF A SMALL (5M2) LEAN-TO STORAGE SHED/BOILER HOUSE TO THE SIDE (SOUTH) ELEVATION OF THE EXISTING PROPERTY (2) REPLACEMENT OF ALL EXISTING WINDOWS AND EXTERNAL DOORS AND THE ENLARGEMENT OF 1 NO. WINDOW TO THE REAR (EAST) ELEVATION OF THE PROPERTY (3) INTERNAL REFURBISHMENT WORKS THROUGHOUT

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051880

• 5 Nov 2020N/a

  (1) ERECTION OF A SMALL (5M2) LEAN-TO STORAGE SHED/BOILER HOUSE TO THE SIDE (SOUTH) ELEVATION OF THE EXISTING PROPERTY (2) REPLACEMENT OF ALL EXISTING WINDOWS AND EXTERNAL DOORS AND THE ENLARGEMENT OF 1 NO. WINDOW TO THE REAR (EAST) ELEVATION OF THE PROPERTY (3) INTERNAL REFURBISHMENT WORKS THROUGHOUT

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051663

• 22 Oct 2020N/a

  (1) ERECTION OF A SMALL (5M2) LEAN-TO STORAGE SHED/BOILER HOUSE TO THE SIDE(SOUTH) ELEVATION OF THE EXISTING PROPERTY (2) REPLACEMENT OF ALL EXISTING WINDOWS AND EXTERNAL DOORS AND THE ENLARGEMENT OF 1 NO. WINDOW TO THE REAR (EAST) ELEVATION OF THE PROPERTY (3) INTERNAL REFURBISHMENT WORKS THROUGHOUT

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051573

• 12 Oct 2020N/a

  (1) ERECTION OF A SMALL (5M2) LEAN-TO STORAGE SHED/BOILER HOUSE TO THE SIDE(SOUTH) ELEVATION OF THE EXISTING PROPERTY (2) REPLACEMENT OF ALL EXISTING WINDOWS AND EXTERNAL DOORS AND THE ENLARGEMENT OF 1 NO. WINDOW TO THE REAR (EAST) ELEVATION OF THE PROPERTY (3) INTERNAL REFURBISHMENT WORKS THROUGHOUT

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051482

• 3 May 2017Conditional

  (A) THE DECOMMISSIONING OF AN EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA SERVING EXISTING DWELLING (B) INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS TO SERVE EXISTING DWELLING

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750675

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Gweedore Bay and Islands SAC 001141
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Gweedore Bay And Islands 001141

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cruit Lower.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1880–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1900. Pitched cement tile roof with concrete copings, replacement rainwater goods, and rendered chimneystacks to gables with clay pots. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth raised rendered quoins. Square-headed window openings with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows, having decorative render surrounds to front elevation, and concrete sills. Square-headed timber panelled doors with overlights and decorative rendered surrounds. Set on elevated site, with concrete retaining wall. Two-storey and single-storey outbuildings, and thatched house to north.

• House, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house with attic, built c.1860, having shallow bed outshot to rear (north) elevation. Pitched thatched roof tied to stone pegs to eaves, with rendered copings and low rendered rubble stone chimneystacks. Limewashed rubble stone walls. Square-headed openings, with replacement timber casement windows and timber battened doors. Set on elevated rocky outcrop. Multiple-bay single-storey house and outbuilding to south, having pitched slate roof with evidence for former curved-profile thatched roof, rendered chimneystacks, square-headed openings and possible bed outshot. One or two-bay two-storey outbuilding to northwest of this building, having pitched re-slated roofs, rendered walls and flight of external steps at east gable giving access to first floor. Detached two-storey house to south.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

The EPA radon map gives no estimate at the centre of the townland of Cruit Lower.

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cruit Lower.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Cruit Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Cruit Lower · An Chruit Íochtarach

Area

1,754,823 m² (175.48 ha, 433.63 acres)

Neighbouring townlands

Cruit Upper

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Cruit Lower on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.